The simple white silk piece featured a giant lobster painted by Dalí and was a playful homage to his 1934 creation New York Dream-Man Finds Lobster in Place of Phone. Related Story: Karl Lagerfeld’s Memphis Apartment: How key moments of design history collided in 1983 Karl Lagerfeld and his Memphis design apartment… It could only have been the meeting of such minds that would create pieces such as the 1937 Lobster dress. Her whimsical nature was perfectly suited to the genius of Salvador Dalí who inspired some of her best-known works. Elsa Schiaparelli was one of the most imaginative and prominent fashion figures working between the two world wars. Overall, the collaboration between fashion and art might currently be at a peak. Shoe Hat, 1937, modelled by Dalí’s wife Gala Art and Fashion, the Beginnings of a Long Relationship Let We Heart and Lyst walk you through the unbreakable bond between art and fashion… The result is almost a century of boundary-pushing innovation, provocation and revolution. Just as art and fashion so regularly collide, we bashed our heads together with online fashion destination Lyst (whose brilliant editorial arm The Long Lyst has quickly become one of the web’s go-to spots for well-considered fashion news, ideas, stories, and opinion), digging up the history of this long-standing relationship. Related Story: Giuseppe Penone for Fendi: Fendi’s latest gift to Rome is a contemporary wonder that was unveiled in serious style… The artist, meanwhile, reaches a wider, more populist audience.
Fashion, often unfairly judged as one of the more frivolous applied arts, gains serious cachet by association. After all, what is fashion if not wearable art? And collaborations between the disciplines are mutually beneficial. From clothing design to catwalk show art direction, major labels to boutique houses, the word of fashion is falling over itself to involve important names from a diverse range of the visual arts. Art and fashion, intrinsically linked and more so than ever.
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